Israeli a Year Invasion

TimeIsNews.com - Ahmad Abdurrahman Mutik five sons and daughter now live in the house his wife’s family since their home in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, destroyed by Israeli aircraft strikes at the beginning of the Israeli invasion to the Gaza Strip late last year.

Ahmad is a 3500 portrait of the suffering of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip after their homes destroyed by Israeli aircraft strikes during the invasion of the Gaza Strip.

Ahmad expressed has received compensation from the government of Hamas, but not enough because it does not match the losses from the destruction of his home due to the onslaught.

He pleaded not get a house for rent, and eventually forced to stay at his wife’s family home is narrow and only consisted of two small rooms.

He lamented, the promises for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip until now and just like the wind. “The world is now just watching our suffering. No one have a heart to help us,” complained Ahmad.

According to the Ministry of Public Works and Housing Palestinian government, there are still about 50,000 more Palestinians are suffering from their homes were damaged in the mild or medium-scale strikes by Israeli aircraft or tanks.

The story of Palestinian suffering from Israel’s invasion into the Gaza Strip was like a leaf that never-ending.

Is exactly a year ago, December 27, 2008, fighter aircraft, tanks, artillery and aircraft attacked Israel simultaneously occupied Gaza Strip about 1.5 million Palestinians. Israeli war machine freely does not know God kept pounding the Gaza Strip to 22 days, from December 27, 2008 until January 18, 2009.

Israel argued that the attack as an act of retaliation for rocket attacks Palestinian factions over a number of targets in southern Israel and destroy the tunnels between the Gaza Strip and Egypt used for smuggling weapons.

However, excessive Israeli attack was a severe criticism from the international community. At least 1400 Palestinians have been killed, mostly civilians, around 5,000 people injured, tens of thousands more suffer from psychological distress and loss of infinite material.

Conscience of the international community reflected in the results of the special session of the UN Human Rights Council in mid-October and in Geneva, Switzerland, who led the team agreed to report the international prosecutor of South African Richard Goldstone. The report accused Israel of war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

The government of Hamas in the Gaza Strip starting Sunday (27/12) launched the first anniversary of the action Israeli invasion into the Gaza Strip.

Minister of Culture Hamas government, Osama Esawi, said that Israel’s invasion into the Gaza Strip the Palestinian issue brought back keharibaan Arab and Islamic world. “Israel’s invasion of making the Arab and Islamic masses and the international community to give strong solidarity to the Palestinian people,” said Esawi.

One Hamas leader, Ismail Ridwan, said Israel’s invasion into the Gaza Strip failed to achieve its objectives, namely to overthrow the Hamas government or decrease the popularity of Hamas.

According to him, Hamas’s ability to survive against the Israeli invasion that led to Israel failed to achieve its objectives.

Palestinians in Israel are more region known as Palestine in 1948 began this week will also hold a peaceful demonstration to commemorate the year the Israeli invasion into the Gaza Strip.

Member of Knesset (Israeli parliament) of the Arabs, Jamal Zahalakah, emphasized, the war in the Gaza Strip has not ended because the area is still in a state of blockade.

Zahalakah urged the international community to pressure Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip blockade.

Another Knesset member from the Arabs, Mohammed Barakat, also stated, there are four battles against Israel today, ending the blockade of the Gaza Strip, stop building Jewish settlements, return of East Jerusalem, and destroyed the dividing wall Israel built in the West Bank.

Zahalakah and Barakat is a member of the core committee Palestinian demonstrations in 1948 to commemorate the year the Israeli invasion into the Gaza Strip.

Only promise

Deputy Minister of Public Works and Housing Palestinian Ridwan Ibrahim said, the promises of rebuilding Gaza Strip have not done so far.

As understood, the international community in an international conference on reconstruction of the Gaza Strip on 2 March in the city of Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, pledged to disburse funds 4.481 billion for the reconstruction of Gaza Strip for two years.

The international community has said it will carry out his promise was committed as soon as possible so quickly there is a better change in the lives of the Palestinian people.

Ridwan reveal existing building renovation efforts here and there by using building materials that are available in the local market or smuggled through the tunnels on the border of Gaza Strip-Egypt.

“The people with their own efforts had succeeded in dismantling 85 percent of the ruins of their houses and government buildings. They build their own by using existing building materials in the local market,” he said.

He said that Gaza residents are increasingly aware that the world has lied to them with promises of reconstruction which was never realized it.

In the middle of the blockade was strangling Gaza Strip, UNRWA (UN agency for Palestinian refugees aid) is the initiative launched last rebuilding project houses of Palestinians using sand material. UNRWA has managed to rebuild 120 houses of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by using sand materials.

However, UNRWA projects for the reconstruction of homes of Palestinians by using sand material that has been criticized by the elite in the Gaza Strip.

Columnist and human rights fighters of Palestine, Mustafa Ibrahim, asking why UNRWA did not ask permission from the Government of Egypt in order to supply construction materials like cement and other materials through the gate of Rafah to the Gaza Strip.

Chairman of the committee of the people against the blockade, Jamal Khadri, say, a year after Israel’s invasion into the Gaza Strip and after three years of Israel’s blockade, the humanitarian conditions in Gaza toward disaster.

He mentioned, that Israel’s blockade has crippled life in the Gaza Strip. “All sectors of life in the Gaza Strip is now very concerned about, such as education, health, and environment,” he said.

Israel accused Khadri and inhuman acts in the Gaza Strip.